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J.R. Dunn's The
American Left Slides Into Psychosis for American Thinker reminds me of the
movie Blood
Simple.
It's so carefully crafted that there's no throw-away scene; not an
extraneous word of dialog. Editing for the trailer is
frustrating, because the distributor, me, keeps ending up with the
entire film. I'm not even going to try then.
Oh, what the hell .. |
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Leftists
really believed that Obama embodied their moment. Obama held all the
cards -- majorities in both houses, a slavish press that viewed him as
no less than a godling, an enthusiastic public, even an acquiescent
international establishment,... No left-of-center president has had
smoother road before him -- not FDR, not Lyndon Johnson. Yet Obama's
efforts amount to utter failure. ... He got the bills passed,
guaranteed that their execution would be in the hands of
extraconstitutional figures beholden only to him, and got them funded
by means both legal and illegal. All of it was put into play with a
smoothness that only Chicago thuggery combined with socialist chicanery
could accomplish. He launched them, and they crashed, and they burned.
They
crashed and burned because they cannot work. ... not in Asia, not in
Africa, nowhere across this wide world. ... The failures were hurriedly
stuffed down the memory hole, enabling the left to hope for another
shot sometime down the line. (No small number of people in this country
-- many of them not doctrinaire leftists by any means -- truly believe
that FDR "ended" the Depression.)
But today
they have a
problem --several, in point of fact. The first is that the memory hole
has in large part been filled in over the past decade and a half by
such things as the Internet and the New Media. It's no longer a simple
matter to shove nationwide failures out of sight. It may not even be
possible.
The second is the
fact
that this time they bet the house. They put everything down on Obama.
Because it had to work. Because the third time was the charm. Because O
was the messiah. And now they're sitting in the casino dead broke,
without another dime to lay on the table, and through the doorway they
can hear the shouts of the people whose money they embezzled.
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